Need help rounding off the top corners of image

"No" wrote in message

I have a image that I want to use as part of a header, I would like the

top

right and left corners to be rounded.
I can find all kinds of tutorials for rounding corners but they do not

start

with a image. Most of them tell you to draw shapes..I did that and then tried to fill it with my image as a pattern but that didn’t work cause it tiled.

Would appreciate some help
Thanks in advance

I’ll assume you’re a beginner and are using this for the web. I don’t actually do web graphics but this should be pretty easy. Open your image. Go into Quick mask mode (hit q key). Take your eliptical marquee tool and (holding down the shift key to keep it round) draw a circle in the 1st corner. If you hold down the space bar at the same time you can slide it around to place it before you release the mouse. Make sure it touches both edges. Fill it with black. Use the move (v key) tool with the alt key pressed to duplicate it. Click and slide it into the opposite corner. Use the magic wand (w key) to select the remaining area. Fill it with black too. Exit quick mask (q). You should see the "marching ants" in the corners. Open layers (I assume you only have one layer, else flatten them) and double click on the background layer. Layer 0, OK. Hit the delete key to remove your pointy corners. Deselect (Ctrl D). File / Save for Web. Select GIF and check off Transparency. You can play with the settings to make the image size smaller, matte the same colour as your page etc. That should do it. Good luck…
~Doc

Thanks for your response but your directions do not work for me, maybe you left out some steps.

"~Doc" wrote in message

"No" wrote in message

I have a image that I want to use as part of a header, I would like the

top

right and left corners to be rounded.
I can find all kinds of tutorials for rounding corners but they do not

start

with a image. Most of them tell you to draw shapes..I did that and then tried to fill it with my image as a pattern but that didn’t work cause

it

tiled.

Would appreciate some help
Thanks in advance

I’ll assume you’re a beginner and are using this for the web. I don’t actually do web graphics but this should be pretty easy. Open your image.

Go

into Quick mask mode (hit q key). Take your eliptical marquee tool and (holding down the shift key to keep it round) draw a circle in the 1st corner. If you hold down the space bar at the same time you can slide it around to place it before you release the mouse. Make sure it touches both edges. Fill it with black. Use the move (v key) tool with the alt key pressed to duplicate it. Click and slide it into the opposite corner. Use the magic wand (w key) to select the remaining area. Fill it with black

too.

Exit quick mask (q). You should see the "marching ants" in the corners.

Open

layers (I assume you only have one layer, else flatten them) and double click on the background layer. Layer 0, OK. Hit the delete key to remove your pointy corners. Deselect (Ctrl D). File / Save for Web. Select GIF

and

check off Transparency. You can play with the settings to make the image size smaller, matte the same colour as your page etc. That should do it. Good luck…
~Doc

Doc,
Thanks for your attempt to help me I do appreciate it. I found a way to do what I needed and it was very simple. I am not trying to say you don’t know what you are doing, but I am going to tell you how I did it in case this is a way you are not aware of.

take your marquee tool and make a rectangle on your image.

click on "select" >"modify">"smooth" enter 16 in the dialog box then "enter"

Then I just cut and pasted in a new file and got my image with rounded edges.

just goes to show you there are so many different ways of doing things in Photoshop…..lol how are we to learn 🙂

Thanks again for your help

"No" wrote in message

Thanks for your response but your directions do not work for me, maybe you left out some steps.

"~Doc" wrote in message

"No" wrote in message

I have a image that I want to use as part of a header, I would like

the

top

right and left corners to be rounded.
I can find all kinds of tutorials for rounding corners but they do not

start

with a image. Most of them tell you to draw shapes..I did that and

then

tried to fill it with my image as a pattern but that didn’t work cause

it

tiled.

Would appreciate some help
Thanks in advance

I’ll assume you’re a beginner and are using this for the web. I don’t actually do web graphics but this should be pretty easy. Open your

image.

Go

into Quick mask mode (hit q key). Take your eliptical marquee tool and (holding down the shift key to keep it round) draw a circle in the 1st corner. If you hold down the space bar at the same time you can slide it around to place it before you release the mouse. Make sure it touches

both

edges. Fill it with black. Use the move (v key) tool with the alt key pressed to duplicate it. Click and slide it into the opposite corner.

Use

the magic wand (w key) to select the remaining area. Fill it with black

too.

Exit quick mask (q). You should see the "marching ants" in the corners.

Open

layers (I assume you only have one layer, else flatten them) and double click on the background layer. Layer 0, OK. Hit the delete key to remove your pointy corners. Deselect (Ctrl D). File / Save for Web. Select GIF

and

check off Transparency. You can play with the settings to make the image size smaller, matte the same colour as your page etc. That should do it. Good luck…
~Doc

No,
I’m not sure why my method didn’t work for you, you didn’t say. I assumed you were a beginner creating a transparent gif and you haven’t said otherwise. I explained a method of how to create a mask manually so you’d know how to apply the info in future masks. Good to see you got it figured out on your own though in your original post and subject you said you only wanted the top corners rounded.

Another way to do what you did is with the rounded rectangle tool set to paths / radius 16 px, then in the Paths menu select work path / Load path as a selection.

~Doc

"No" wrote in message

Doc,
Thanks for your attempt to help me I do appreciate it. I found a way to do what I needed and it was very simple. I am not trying to say you don’t know what you are doing, but I am going to tell you how I did it in case this is a way you are not aware of.

take your marquee tool and make a rectangle on your image.
click on "select" >"modify">"smooth" enter 16 in the dialog box then

"enter"

Then I just cut and pasted in a new file and got my image with rounded edges.

just goes to show you there are so many different ways of doing things in Photoshop…..lol how are we to learn 🙂

Thanks again for your help

"No" wrote in message

Thanks for your response but your directions do not work for me, maybe

you

left out some steps.

"~Doc" wrote in message

"No" wrote in message

I have a image that I want to use as part of a header, I would like

the

top

right and left corners to be rounded.
I can find all kinds of tutorials for rounding corners but they do

not

start

with a image. Most of them tell you to draw shapes..I did that and

then

tried to fill it with my image as a pattern but that didn’t work

cause

it

tiled.

Would appreciate some help
Thanks in advance

I’ll assume you’re a beginner and are using this for the web. I don’t actually do web graphics but this should be pretty easy. Open your

image.

Go

into Quick mask mode (hit q key). Take your eliptical marquee tool and (holding down the shift key to keep it round) draw a circle in the 1st corner. If you hold down the space bar at the same time you can slide

it

around to place it before you release the mouse. Make sure it touches

both

edges. Fill it with black. Use the move (v key) tool with the alt key pressed to duplicate it. Click and slide it into the opposite corner.

Use

the magic wand (w key) to select the remaining area. Fill it with

black

too.

Exit quick mask (q). You should see the "marching ants" in the

corners.

Open

layers (I assume you only have one layer, else flatten them) and

double

click on the background layer. Layer 0, OK. Hit the delete key to

remove

your pointy corners. Deselect (Ctrl D). File / Save for Web. Select

GIF

and

check off Transparency. You can play with the settings to make the

image

size smaller, matte the same colour as your page etc. That should do

it.

Good luck…
~Doc